Donny Brown is best known for his drumming and song writing as a member of The Verve Pipe. Now he is taking center stage, trading in the drums for his acoustic guitar with the Van Dell Tones as a backing band. Donny is a singer-songwriter whose work includes two iTunes Best of the Year list family albums in 2012 and 2013 with The Verve Pipe. His original compositions have also been featured on America's Funniest Home Videos, Roswell, Dawson's Creek and in the Tim Allen feature film Joe Somebody. Donny has also written for artists the band Hanson and with Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies.

Opening the show will be New York city-raised - Lansing-based Abbey Hoffman. Her eclectic blend of songwriter-storyteller genre and acoustic guitar can be heard regionally as a solo performer and as a featured vocalist with the Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle.

The entire 2015-2016 Premiere Artists Series will be announced this evening as we kickoff the Celebrate Charlotte Festival with the return of the Professional Series to Your Charlotte Performing Arts Center!

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Join the Capitol City Chordsmen and local quartets in a celebration of barbershop harmony in a two-hour holiday extravaganza! The 30-man chorus joins with four quartets to celebrate the season with some of your favorite Christmas carols and other favorite holiday songs. Quartets include “Olde Thyme Harmony Quartet,” “Knockin' On Heaven's Door,” “Take Note,” and “Parts Unlimited.” The show will also have a special audience Christmas sing-along and feature some other favorite barbershop songs. Itís an evening of wholesome, family-friendly entertainment. Don't miss this great event!"

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In our American culture It's a Wonderful Life has become almost as familiar as Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It tells the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty. His guardian angel has to descent on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. This faithful adaptation has all your favorite characters: George and Mary Hatch, Clarence, Uncle Billy, Violet, and, of course, the Scrooge-like villain, Mr. Potter. This dramatization not only celebrates the faith of the season, it also celebrates the American philosophy of life: hard work, fair play and the love and support of one's family and community will be rewarded.

The Popovich Comedy Pet Theater is a family-oriented blend of the unique comedy and juggling skills of Gregory Popovich, and the extraordinary talents of 38 shelter rescued performing pets. Their love to show off onstage - performing a variety of stunts and skits! Audiences will be delighted to see this extravaganza of European-style clowning, amazing juggling and balancing acts, and of course, very talented performing pets.